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These businesses built what have become the commons, which they retain control over through mechanisms like network effects, which allow them to make unaccountable decisions on the one hand and profit from rentierism on the other. It would probably be in people’s interest for their governments to seize these assets and socialize them as public utilities.




Then I suggest electing a government that's interested in doing what's in the people's interest.

Big tech effectively owns the government, at least in the US. If people really want to fix this mess we need mass strikes.



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